Mark Sumner on Nostr: Within the past few decades, big box stores sucked up profits that once went to local ...

Within the past few decades, big box stores sucked up profits that once went to local stores, while returning lower pay and fewer benefits. Then online retail consumed many of the big box stores, returning fewer jobs and still worse pay and benefits.

Social media has done the same with both “news,” in terms of news once shared among those waiting for a trim at the barbershop, and news once printed in things called “newspapers” or broadcast in a compact half-hour format at 6 and 10 PM. …